Friday, August 31, 2007

Memory increase :8 laws of memory

I promised memory increase tips and as always i will serve my word.In order to make a super power memory you first have to understand how it works.And im not speaking about physical activities of the brain,knowing that doesnt change much.So i will begin with the 8 laws of how memory operates:

1. The Law Of Comprehension.
Simple, but yet the most important. According to the German writer Georg Lichtenberg,people poorly remember what they read because "they do too little thinking". The more deeply you grasp what you memorize, the more easily and the more in detail it will remain in your memory.

2. The Law Of Interest.
"For knowledge to be digested, it must be absorbed with relish," wrote Anatole France. The
interesting is remembered easily as you dont not have to make special efforts,you just memorize it spontaneously .

3. The Law Of Previous Knowledge.
The more you knows on a certain subject, the more easily you memorises everything new pertaining to it. Everyone must have noticed that when you open a book read long ago, you read it as if you had never read it before. This means that when you read it for the first time you lacked the relevant experience and information but by this time you have accumulated them. Thus reading forms connections between the accumulated and the new knowledge. This is the result of memorisation.

4. The Law Of Readiness For Memorisation.
The reader derives the information he sets out to derive from the text. The same goes for the duration of memorisation. When you want to remember something for long, you will remember it in any case better than when you wants to remember something for a brief while.

5. The Law Of Associations.
This was formulated back in the 4th century B.C. by Aristotle. The concepts which arose
simultaneously summon each other up from the memory bank by association. For instance, the
atmosphere of a room evokes recollections about events which took place in it (or recollection of what you read staying in it, and this is exactly what you need).

6. The Law Of Sequences.
The alphabet is easy to recite in its regular order and difficult in the reverse order. The conceptions learned in a certain sequence, when recalled, summon each other up in the same sequence.

7. The Law Of Strong Impressions.
The stronger the first impression of what is being memorised, the brighter the image. The greater the number of information channels, the more strongly the information is retained. Hence, the task is to achieve the strongest possible initial impression of the material subject.

8. The Law Of Inhibition.
Any subsequent memorisation inhibits the previous. The learned portion of information must "settle" before the next is taken up. The best way to forget newly memorised material is by trying to memorise something similar directly afterwards. This is why school children are advised not to learn physics after mathematics and literature after history and to learn poetry before going to bed.

These are the 8 laws of memory.I bet you actually knew them never even thinking about it,but its good to really know exactly what things like associations happen.Read them understand them and...dont forget them ;).Soon we will go to the tips part.

Disclaimer

I would like to state that I am not a certified doctor, nutritionist or aging expert. All of the advice and recommendetions are just this- advice based on personal experience and not on education. My goal is to help you become the best version of yourself by being healthy and strong both mentally and physically. However what you do after reading the information in this blog is up to you. Thank you for reading and good luck!